probably would, have gone away unarrested; it was family prayer that overpowered him with recollections which eventually brought him to the Cross. Recollections of what? Of the prayers of parents. Even the domestic worship of his new friends would have been powerless, had not his youth been accustomed to a solemn service at home. What encouragement this is to Christian parents! For the Children. The Mighty Cure-all. Several gentlemen were talking one evening at the house of a friend, when one of them exclaimed, "Ah, depend upon it, a soft answer is a mighty cure-all." A boy who sat behind the company studying his lessons, began to listen, and repeated in a whisper, "A soft answer is a mighty cure-all!" "Yes, that's it," cried the gentleman, turning round to see where the whisper came from; "Yes, that's it, is it not so, my lad ?" The boy blushed a little at finding himself noticed, but answered, “I don't know as I understand it." 66 'Well, I'll explain then," said the gentleman, wheeling round his chair; “for it is a principle you ought to understand and act upon; besides, it is the principle that is going to conquer the world." The boy looked puzzled, and thought he should like to know something that was equal to Alexander himself. "I might as well explain," said he, "by telling you about the first time it conquered me. When I went to school, it once happened that my seat was next to a boy named Tom Tucker. When I found he lived in a small house behind the academy, I began to strut a little, and talk about what my father was: but as Tom was a capital scholar, and a good hand at bat and ball, we were soon on pretty good terms, and so it went on for some time. After a while several of the boys, and I among the rest, got into a difficulty with one of the teachers; and somehow or other we took a notion that Tom Tucker was at the bottom of it. The boys set me on to go to Tom Tucker's, and let him know what he had to expect. Full of anger, I ran into his yard, where he was at work with Trip and his little sister. 'I'll teach you to talk about me in this way,' I cried, marching up to him. He never winced, or seemed the least frightened; but stood still, looking at me as quiet as a lamb. Tell me,' I cried, throwing down my books, and doubling up my fists at him, 'tell me what you mean by it?' He stepped on one side, but answered firmly yet mildly, 'Charles, you may strike me as much as you please; I tell you I shan't strike back again: fighting is a poor way to settle difficulties. I'm thinking when you are Charles Everett again, I'll talk with you.' "Oh, what an answer was that; how it cowed me down; so firm, and yet so mild. I was ashamed of myself, my temper, and everything about me; I longed to get out of his sight. I saw what a poor, foolish way my way of doing things was. I felt that Tom had completely got the better of me, and from that hour he had an influence over me that nobody else ever had before or since, and it was for good too. That you see is the power, the mighty power, of a soft answer. “I have been about the world a great deal since then," said the gentleman, “and I believe that perhaps all the quarrels which arise among men, women, and children, in families, schools or even nations, can be cured by the mighty, moral power of a soft answer; for the Scriptures tell us, 'A soft answer turneth away wrath.' Yes, it is just so; it stops the leak in the beginning." Boys, study this principle; try it; remember that anger produces anger, fighting makes fighting, war leads to war, and so on. Let us turn about and try the peace principle! How to make up a Quarrel. William Ladd was the President of the American Peace Society, and he believed that the principles of peace, carried out, would maintain good-will among neighbours as well as among nations. But there was a time when he had not fully considered this subject-had not thought much about it, as I dare say my young readers have not; and he believed that if a man struck him a blow, it was fair and best to strike right back again, without considering if there were not some better way of overcoming the offender; or if a man did him an injury, why, as people commonly say, he would give him as good as he sent. He then had a farm; and a poor man who lived on land adjoining his, neglected to keep up a fence which it was his business to keep in order; and in consequence, his sheep got into William Ladd's wheat field and did much mischief. William Ladd told his man Sam, to go to the neighbour and tell him, he must mend the fence and keep the sheep out. But the sheep came in again, and William Ladd, who was a very orderly man himself, was provoked. "Sam," he said, "go to that fellow, and tell him if he dont keep his sheep out of my wheat-field, I'll have them shot." Even this did not do; the sheep were in again. "Sam," said William Ladd, "take my gun and shoot those sheep." "I had rather not," said Sam. "Rather not, Sam! why, there are but three-it's no great job." 66 'No, sir; but the poor man has but three in the world, and I am not the person that likes to shoot a poor man's sheep." "Then the poor man should take proper care of them; I gave him warning; why didn't he mend his fence?” “Well, sir, I guess it was because you sent him a rough kind of a message; it made him mad, and so he would not do it." "I considered a few minutes," said William Ladd, "and then I told Sam to put the horse in the buggy. 666 Shall I put in the gun?' said Sam. "No said I. I saw Sam half smiled, but I said nothing. I got into my buggy and drove up to my neighbour's. He lived a mile off, and I had a good deal of time to think the matter over. "When I drove up to the house the man was chopping wood; there were but few sticks of wood, and the house was poor, and my heart was softened. 'Neighbor,' I called out; the man looked sulky and did not lift up his head. 'Come, come, neighbor,' said I, 'I have come with friendly feelings to you, and you must meet me half way. He perceived I was in earnest, laid down his axe and came to the waggon. Now, neighbour,' said I, we have both been in the wrong: you neglected your fence, and I got angry and sent you a provoking message. Now let's both face about, and both do right, and feel right. I'll forgive and you shall forgive. let's shake hands.' He didn't quite feel like giving me his hand, but he let me take it. "Now,' said I,' neighbor drive your sheep down to my south pasture; they shall share with my sheep till next spring; you shall have all the yield, and next summer we'll start fair.' Now "His hand was no longer dead in mine. He gave me a good friendly grasp. The tears came into his eyes, and he said, ‘I guess you are a Christian, William Ladd, after all.' "And that little fracas with my neighbor about the sheep was," said William Ladd, "the first step to my devoting myself to the Peace Society." Seed-Lives.-S. W. Partridge, of Paternoster Row, has printed an edition of 5,000 copies of this little book. The readers of the BOND best know its aim and character. If they approve of both, we hope they will promote its circulation. A copy will be sent by the publisher to any person remitting four penny stamps, one of which is to pay postage. CARTE DE VISITE PORTRAITS. Mr. ALLEN HASTINGS FRY is prepared to supply the following Carte de Visite Portraits taken by Messrs. 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Martial law, irresponsible rule, summary justice, is what these descendants of Franklin and the Adams are crying out for. ***** As soon as the rebellion is crushed and the war is at an end, a regular standing army of 200,000 men must be one of the first conditions of the reconstituted Union; and that army is not to be used against England, but for internal application,-to crush discussion, and to support 'strong government.' Whilst, however, we accept from the Times this valuable and instructive commentary upon the influence which war is exercising on the political liberties of the Northern States, we must be permitted to gather from this same article of the chamelion journal an equally striking illustration of the small reliance to be placed on war by the South as the means of obtaining or maintaining political independence. We all know that the Southern Confederacy professes to have drawn the sword solely for the purpose of establishing its political independence, and it is on this ground alone that it has ventured to claim English sympathy and support. Its great European organ, the Times, has taken up its cause on this assumption, and has cheered on and encouraged the Southerners in their war by the assurance that their ultimate success was certain. Long since it declared the Union to be hopelessly and irretrievably lost, and that the North in continuing to fight for the reconstruction of the Union, was wickedly and wantonly perpetuating the horrors of war, without the slightest prospect of realising the object for which it shed the blood and squandered the wealth of the people. But what says the Times, now, in this very passage which we have just quoted? It remarks that "a regular standing army of 200,000 men must be one of the very first conditions of the reconstructed Union." "Deliver me from my friends" may well be the language of the unhappy Southerners-decimated and impoverished by this sanguinary war as they read the columns of their fickle English ally and counsellor, who, after telling them for months that their cause was virtually won,—that the Union was shattered for ever, and the independence of the South-a fait accompli-now turns suddenly round and talks of a "reconstructed Union," and threatens the whole country with a future "standing army of 200,000 men as a permanent curb upon its political and social liberties, and as a bitter sarcasm upon its Republican institutions. When will the people learn wisdom? When will Christians learn, everywhere, that their glorious Gospel is a better bulwark of defence than a thousand batteries of big guns;-that its benign law of love embodies a policy at once nobler, more manly, and more honourable, than all the murderous mechanism of defensive armaments, with which to sustain the pride and arrogancy of the spirit of war ? We claim to be the true friends of liberty when we seek to break the baneful spell which surrounds the whole system and policy of war. The Christian has plenty of fighting to do, but his weapons are to be not carnal, but spiritual; he has the sure promise of victory, but not through the slaughter of his fellow-men, the sacking of their cities, or |